Classes & Retreats

Classes

Finding happiness – six-week introductory course – Sundays 1.30pm from 4 February 2018 We think that if we could change this or that everything will be fine. But it never seems to work out that way. The problem is that we are looking for happiness in the wrong direction. For so long as we seek […]

SATURDAY NIGHT DISCUSSION GROUP IS SUSPENDED FOR THE PRESENT Taking a Peak at Reality on Saturday nights Is life just a series of fleeting experiences or are we missing something far more profound? The Buddha explained that all the conventional appearances of the world have an ultimate nature of emptiness. Emptiness is right there before […]

Four-week course from 7.30 pm Thursday 23 November Thursday night meditation classes return for the rest of the year, focusing on meditations which are at the heart of our happiness. These simple one-hour sessions will focus on creating kindness, peace and relaxation through meditations on love and compassion. In Buddhism, this is the key to […]

Wednesdays from 7.30pm to 9pm. This class includes the practice of the Yamantaka sadhana. To be able to attend these teachings you must have received Solitary Hero Yamantaka empowerment. Yamantaka is in the class of the Highest Yoga Tantra practices. Students practising Yamantaka must have a sound basis in the study and meditations of the Path to […]

Mondays from 7.30pm to 9pm. This class is for students who have received empowerment, these sessions include sadhana practice, Wheel of Offering (tsog) practice, instructions and guided meditation in the traditional Tibetan temple, followed by supper. Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden’s commentary on the practice titled Path to the Union of Clear Light and Illusory Body provides the basis […]

Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden, the peerless master and great scholar who founded the Tibetan Buddhist Society likened the path to enlightenment to a master key. A master key in a hotel opens all the doors, and likewise, the Path to Enlightenment opens the doors to so many realisations. If you feel a bit down, then […]

Retreats

Our New Year meditation retreat from Saturday 20 to Saturday 27 January will be on the powerful, simple practice of mahamudra meditation. Mahamudra is known for its power to reduce stress, ease suffering and difficult mental states, generate joy, and as a healing practice. In this retreat we will practise meditation on our natural clear state of […]